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There have been considerable recent demographic shifts in the use of English worldwide. English is now undoubtedly(and particularly) an international lingua franca, a lingua mundi. The sociolinguistic reality of English language use worldwide, and its implications, continue to be hotly contested. Plenty of research has questioned, for example, the ownership of English, but less attention has been paid to the linguistic consequences of the escalating role English plays.This is one of the first books to provide a detailed and comprehensive account of recent empirical findings in the field of Eng

English language --- Intercultural communication. --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Variation --- Globalization. --- Anthropological aspects --- Dialectology --- Sociolinguistics --- Germanic languages

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"The Routledge Handbook of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) provides an accessible, authoritative and comprehensive introduction to the main theories, concepts, contexts and applications of this rapidly developing field of study.Including 47 state-of-the art chapters from leading international scholars, the handbook covers key concepts, regional spread, linguistic features and communication processes, domains and functions, ELF in academia, ELF and pedagogy and future trends.This handbook is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of English as a lingua franca and world/global Englishes more broadly, within English language, applied linguistics, and education."--Provided by publisher.

English language --- Lingua francas --- Study and teaching --- Foreign speakers --- Globalization --- Germanic languages --- Contact vernaculars --- Linguae francae --- Trade languages --- Vehicular languages --- Languages in contact

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